Attention will be focused on Greece's embattled banks on Monday when the Athens stock exchange reopens after a six-week shutdown imposed while the country was negotiating with the European Union, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other creditors regarding the bail-out talks on its debt crisis.

Dramatic pictures and a video have emerged of the moment when a Russian military helicopter crashed during an aerobatic display at the Dubrovichi firing range in Ryazan region, about 170 kilometers (105 miles) southeast of Moscow.

Russian Anti-Terrorist Committee said on Sunday that the militants killed in combat in the province of Ingushetia west of Chechnya were involved in a series of attacks on police. It added that they had recently swore an oath of allegiance to IS.

Will it be the small tortoiseshell butterfly or the black garden ant that bags the title of UK's favourite insect? An online poll will decide! The poll has been launched to find the answer by the Royal Society of Biology.

Pakistani security forces have killed a senior al Qaeda commander in an overnight raid at his hideout in Baluchistan, a provincial minister said on Sunday. The security forces also detained his wife and took the couple's two young daughters into custody during the raid in the Chaghi district.

Kurdish rebels on Sunday drove an explosives-laden agricultural vehicle into a military police station in eastern Turkey, killing two soldiers and wounding a further 24 according to the authorities, in the latest escalation of violence between government forces and the autonomy-seeking insurgents.

With two more Mars orbiters sent into space last year, including India's MOM probe, traffic has picked up around the red planet — so much so that NASA has bolstered its traffic monitoring process to avoid spacecraft collisions.

Defying death threats, an Iraqi television comedian, Ahmad al-Basheer, is taking on the Islamic State group with biting satirical sketches like the one above, with his sharp, incisive humour aimed at dispelling the aura of fear that surrounds the militant group.